Author Notes: "Bold" is English.
Chapter 1: A Dynamic Entry
He had no idea what happened after he made contact with Kaguya completing the seal. Everything went white and now he felt the winds whipping across his body as well as the feeling of weightlessness as he fell. He didn't need to look around to know he was in another world again, looking down though he could see he was falling from a rather significant height. Naruto knew he had to do something, a fall from this high would be fatal. Yet he couldn't summon up the six sage chakra, he felt really drained. It seemed that the battle with Kaguya took a lot more out of him then he realized. Still he had one more trick up his sleeve but more than likely he'd be almost completely drained after this not to mention it would probably hurt a lot. But there was no other option, so Naruto brought his hands together to form an all too familiar hand sign. "Kage Bunshin no Justu!"
"Impact on the ocean surface two miles off our port bow." Ooyodo reported as one of the destroyers radioed in.
"I can see that." The Admiral said as he stared out through a porthole on the portside. A line of white smoke clearly indicated the path of the mysterious object that fell after the equally mysterious blinding white flash that took his fleet by surprise. The Admiral was no stranger to the ocean and he'd also heard many tales from colleagues of strange occurrences out at sea, but this was the first time it happened to him.
"Admiral, what do you wish to do?" The Admiral turned to look at the tall dark haired beauty who spoke to him. Standing straight with arms crossed over her impressive bust not at all embarrassed that the outfit she wore border lined on scandalous. Her serious expression and deep yet still feminine voice gave her overall appearance a perfect mix of power, charisma, and sex appeal. Her name was Nagato the first of her class of battleships, she was his secretary ship and more.
"Has the radar picked up anything?" The Admiral asked.
"None at all, aside from that large signature a moment ago that disappeared nearly as fast as it appeared sir." Nagato replied.
The Admiral turned back to look out of the porthole. There were a lot of unknowns right now. There was possibility that this was the action of the enemy, a trap perhaps, he had no idea. Still he couldn't simply leave it as is, if it was an enemy action he would have to investigate it if anything to make sure that his flank and rear would be clear when they passed by. "Tell Akagi to send a recon flight, have Kisaragi and Mutsuki begin sweeps in the direction of the impact. Also tell Kongou and Haruna to follow the destroyers in but exercise extreme caution, remember what our objective is we can't afford anyone getting hurt now."
"Aye, sir." Ooyodo complied and began radioing the Admiral's orders to the fleet girls.
The Admiral turned to look back at Nagato. "Nagato what's the weather update now." The frown marring the ship girl's face answered his question before she spoke.
"No changes to the cyclones path Admiral." Nagato replied. "At its current speed and course its outer bands will reach our objective area at roughly the same time we do.
The Admiral turned to look back out the porthole to hide the frustration on his face. Up until recently his fleet had been doing very well. They had cleared the area around their naval base of the enemy as well as drive them off from some rather resource rich areas. Many ship girls had been constructed and he treasured each of them, to the point that in a major action he would also take a regular ship to personally command the fleet despite much protest from his colleagues, superiors, and his ship girls especially Nagato. There had been more than a few close calls but his ship girls always prevailed, in fact they tended to fight even harder knowing their Admiral was also there alongside them. Since he started his tenure over a year ago he hadn't lost a single ship girl in his fleet and he would damn well do everything he could to keep it that way. Now it seems his long stream of good fortune had run out, it was only supposed to be a routine patrol to gain experience for his new destroyers Ayanami, Kasumi, and Harusame. Yuudachi who had been in three engagements was the flagship and in charge of the patrol. Since the sector was well within the area that was cleared he was sure they would be fine so he hadn't ordered any reconnaissance. He cursed himself for such a stupid decision.
A Nu-class light carrier supported by a Ho-class light cruiser ambushed the destroyers, they had used the large rocky outcroppings in the area to camouflage their signature from radar despite the dangers of the rocks. Luckily Kaga who had been testing out the new Reppuu planes wasn't far away and she was being escorted by Tenryu and Shimakaze. Kaga had launched planes while both Tenryu and Shimakaze rushed to help the beleaguered destroyers, unfortunately those two Abyssal ship girls weren't the only ones. A Chi-class torpedo cruiser also broke from cover and attacked Kaga. It was only due to Shimakaze managing to quickly return to Kaga's aid that he hadn't lost her. The Chi-class also withdrew when the Nu-class and Ho-class were sunk and the battered but still able combat capable ship girls of his fleet were coming to the carrier girl's aid. Kaga was in really bad shape when they rushed her in. Tenryu and the destroyers were also in rough shape. The Admiral had been devastated at the news his carelessness nearly cost him Kaga and the new additions to his fleet. To make matters worse a report came in that a large Abyssal fleet was coming to reclaim a chain of resource rich islands which he had driven them off from a few months ago. These islands were crucial in being able to maintain and supply he's fleet, he couldn't afford to lose them. He couldn't take Kaga along because of her damage and he was all out of instant repair buckets the last had been used by Mutsu in a sortie off of the Nansei islands.
There was also the factor of his current resources, with construction of new ship girls, upgrades, equipment, and the damage incurred from his recent fuck-up he had put a significant dent in his current supply. This was compounded by the fact he needed to sortie a large fleet to defend the area under threat. He had chosen to emphasize air power, along with Akagi he also had Zuikaku as well as light carriers, Junyou and Hiyou. In support he took Kongou and Haruna for speed and long range firepower. Heavy cruiser Atago could also assist the battleships should the need arise but her role was more to protect the command ship and carrier girls with light cruiser Yahagi. Mutsuki and Kisaragi were his only destroyers on this sortie but were among some of the more experienced in the fleet also they had both gotten remodeled so their performance had improved and he had full trust in them.
All in all a pretty imposing fleet. Sure the cost in materials after the sortie would probably give his brain a hernia, but if the girls managed to defeat the enemy at a distance without taking too much damage in return he was sure they could afford the cost. That is until Mother Nature threw him a curve-ball, literally. There was a tropical depression that at the time of departure was running parallel just 50 miles south of the operation area. All The weather predictions at the time though showed its path would remain unchanged. However just two hours after their departure the cyclone shifted and was heading north straight for the operation area. Instantly his carriers were neutralized and firepower took a severe nosedive. However there was no way he could order a recall, there simply wouldn't be enough materials left to order another sortie of this size again if they returned to base. His only hope was that the enemy was also as hampered as he was either way they had to keep going. Then the mysterious events occurred which put the fleet in their current situation.
Up in the skies the recon planes Akagi had launched had reached the point where the impact of the mysterious object occurred. What they radioed back to the ship girl was surprising. "A person? Can you check again?" Once again the familiar planes radioed in the same results. "Understood, continue reconnaissance the destroyers will be there soon."
"A person? Out here in the middle of nowhere?" Nagato stated in disbelief as Ooyodo relayed Akagi's report.
"Any sign of Abyssal presence?" The Admiral asked.
"None at the moment, Mutsuki and Kisaragi have arrived and are conducting sweeps. No mines or other signatures detected on sonar." Ooyodo reported.
The Admiral gave a deep thoughtful sigh as he pondered what he should do next. Meanwhile out on the water. The ship girls had stopped at what they considered a safe observation distance. They could clearly see the individual that was floating on his back. He was a blonde male, with peculiar marks on his cheeks that looked almost like whiskers. He wore what looked to be an orange and black jacket and orange pants which looked like they'd been through better days.
"He looks terrible." Haruna stated as she took in the state of the floating person.
"Careful little sister our orders are to keep our distance." Kongou said though she herself also pitied the state of the person.
"Really though poor guy looks beaten up." Kisaragi said.
"Looks very painful." Mutsuki added.
Naruto furrowed his brow the sound of voices stirred him to consciousness and was immediately struck by the pain of his body. Although the clones managed to slow his fall to the point that he wouldn't die when he impacted the water it was still a very painful landing which despite his high pain tolerance he blacked out. Even now his entire body was in agony, it was even painful to breathe. Despite the pain he managed to turn his head enough to look at where the voices were he could barely make out the shapes between the seawater splashing in his eyes and the pain threatening him to put him under again. "He's moving." He heard a voice call out.
Naruto struggled to lift an arm, He managed to reach out a trembling arm toward the figures. "H-H-Help m…." Naruto suddenly lost all strength the arm going limp splashing back to the ocean's surface. Then his legs started going under slowly pulling him beneath the water's surface.
"He's going under!" He heard a different voice cry out.
"Wait! Haruna!"
Naruto head just slipped under the water's surface when a pair of hands grabbed his arm that had lifted up as he was going under. He was pulled back up, as his head broke the surface he felt the pair of hands move from his arm to cradle his head. The heat of the sun disappeared as a shadow covered his face he managed to open his eyes again. His vision managed to clear for a moment as he looked up to see a pair of amber eyes embedded on a cute feminine face framed by long silky straight gray hair. "Are you alright? Hey can you hear Haruna." He heard her say. Naruto tried to speak but his vision began to blur and his eyelids felt heavy. Soon he was out once again.
Fifteen Minutes Later.
The Admiral looked up from the various items that were removed from the mysterious stranger they picked up as Nagato entered the room. "You finished your dress down?"
"Truthfully I think I should be giving her a much longer lecture, but we have no time for that." Nagato said.
"Give her a break she reacted like any good person would have." The Admiral stated as he brought up a kunai examining the weapon.
"It could have been an enemy trap and she went against orders." Nagato stated.
"True, but sometimes the situation dictates action before orders are given. This just happened to be one. More importantly why don't you have a little look at our guest." The Admiral said.
Nagato walked over to the Admiral and looked at the spread of items on the table. "Are those shuriken?"
"Yes, it seems our unconscious friend here is outfitted as a ninja, a very loudly dressed ninja to be precise." The Admiral said.
"Why would a ninja be floating out in the middle of the ocean?" Nagato asked glancing over at the bed where Naruto lay, his jacket and pants had been removed to dry.
"No idea, his presence is as mysterious as that occurrence earlier. Still from what I can gather from this and his current state is that he has been in battle." The Admiral stated as he lay the kunai back on the table.
"Battle?" Nagato glanced over at Naruto again. "Against what?"
The Admiral shrugged. "Who knows, just him floating out here in the middle of the ocean is a mystery in itself and as long as he's unconscious we can't hear his side. For now let's focus on the mission, let's return to the bridge. The Admiral just opened the door and was about to step out when he noticed Nagato wasn't following, she was looking at the unconscious Naruto. "Is something wrong Nagato?"
Nagato turned her gaze back to the Admiral. "Admiral are you sure we should just leave him like this? Shouldn't we at least post a guard?"
"With his injuries he won't be getting up any time soon. Besides he doesn't have anywhere to go." The Admiral stepped out of the room after moment of hesitation Nagato followed. No one entered the room after that, otherwise they would have witnessed the injuries that Naruto had healing themselves at an astonishing rate.
A few hours later.
A dull boom and shake roused Naruto. His body felt much better although there was still a dull ache to his body it was nowhere near the level of pain he was in before. Another boom woke him up fully and he sat up looking around he could see he was in a small room his clothes were hanging and his weapons and gear laid out on a small table. Getting out of bed he quickly got himself dressed and equipped although after another quick check he was disappointed to see that his Shinobi alliance forehead protector was missing. Another boom this time much louder put him on high alert. Explosions, wherever he was something big was going down. He opened the door and saw the open ocean. Briefly he was stunned at the sight as well as depressed. This sight quickly confirmed he was in a different world and nowhere near the Shinobi nations. Looking around him he was stunned again. He was on a ship made of metal and it was huge. The last time he'd seen a ship similar to this had been against the foreigners from across the sea that tried to invade the Land of Wind. More explosions were heard and Naruto focused his gaze out. The waves were getting choppy and the skies were gray, there was a big storm coming. Yet out on the waters he saw a few girls their clothes tattered and wearing strange devices. They were retreating from a line of much more darker dressed girls and some grotesque looking beings.
At first Naruto was confused. The girls didn't seem to be shinobi in fact although they stood on the water they seemed to be skating on it rather than running or walking. An explosion engulfed one of the girls at the rear of those retreating. As the smoke cleared she was kneeling in the water, her clothes barely covering the most intimate areas and the apparatus she wore was smoking. Seeing her gray hair, the face of the girl who saved him appeared in his mind's eye. "It's that girl from before." Without hesitation Naruto went over the side.
The Admiral gripped the railing with white knuckled fury as he grit his teeth. Everything went south very quickly. The Abyssal fleet was somewhat inconvenienced by the cyclone but nowhere near as much as they were. The enemy fleet had one Wo-class standard carrier and one Nu-class light carrier but they also had two Ru-class battleships, A Ta-class fast battleship, two Ri-class heavy cruisers, and four destroyers I and Ha class. They had tried to lure the enemy fleet into an ambush using the islands as camouflage having Akagi, Zuikaku and the Destroyers as the lure. But the Abyssal weren't so fool hardy they sent their destroyers and a single Ri-class after the carriers and destroyers and the Admiral had no choice but to spring his ambush on this force or risk losing his ship girls. The ambush took out the Ri-class and two of the destroyers but from there it became a slugfest which he knew he couldn't win.
"Moderate damage to Atago and Haruna, Kongou's heavily damaged, Kisaragi has lost her gun and Mutsuki can't get close enough for a torpedo attack the fire is too thick. What are your orders Admiral?" Nagato asked although she also clenched her fists until they went white. Stuck on the ship instead of fighting alongside her fellow ship girls she felt useless but there wasn't anything to be done her "outfit" was back at the naval base and the facilities to equip them were only at the base.
"We're withdrawing, call them back have Atago support Kongou back and Haruna cover their rear." The Admiral stated.
"Admiral if we lose these islands our fleet will be…" Nagato started when the Admiral cut her off.
"I refuse to sacrifice you girls for a few islands, I'll figure out something about our resources, withdraw immediately."
"Shit, The precious equipment that the Admiral gave me." Kongou cursed just before a burst of static came from her radio.
"Understood we're withdrawing, Haruna-chan give us screening fire." Atago grabbed onto Kongou and began retreating.
"Hai!" Haruna released another barrage from her remaining guns to provide cover to her sister and the heavy cruiser, just as she turned to follow them the return barrage hit. When the smoke clear Haruna was on her knees her cannons were destroyed and she was steadily sinking into the water.
"Haruna!" Kongou tried to break away from Atago to help her sister ship but the heavy cruiser restrained her.
"You won't make it in time." Atago regretfully said as she held back Kongou. Just then a blur of black and orange passed by them.
Haruna could only watch helplessly as the Abyssal battleships oriented their guns on her. Heavily damaged and already starting to sink she knew this was it for her. "I'm sorry Kongou nee- sama." She closed her eyes as she heard the roar of the enemy guns, instantly after she felt as if she was engulfed by something and yanked away. For a moment Haruna wondered why she felt warm, if she was sinking shouldn't she be cold?
"Don't worry, I've got you." An unfamiliar voice said. Haruna opened her eyes, first thing she realized was she hadn't sunk and she had been saved by none other than the mysterious boy she herself had saved a few hours ago. The second thing she realized was he had bright blue eyes that seemed to shine. It took her a few moments for her more logical part of her mind to voice out that they were still on the open water. Reluctantly tearing her gaze from her saviors she looked down and saw her savior was standing on the water like it was solid ground.
"Eh, Eh, EHHH!?" A bewildered Haruna kept looking between the ocean surface and face of her savior. She wasn't the only one surprised about this either.
"H-How is this…"Nagato trailed off, beside her the Admiral was speechless in fact pretty much the entire crew of the ship both human and ship girl were speechless and shocked into inactivity including the enemy.
Naruto shot the girl he saved a grin before it dropped completely as he turned his gaze over to the line of girls that attacked the one he saved. It seems they were confused at his sudden appearance but that wouldn't last long he needed to get the girl out of here. "Hey," He said turning his gaze back to the girl. "Can you stand on your own for a second?"
Still in shock Haruna could only nod before he set her on her feet no sooner did he let her go he formed a peculiar cross shape with the pointer and middle fingers on both hands. What came next brought even more shock.
"Kage Bunshin no jutsu!" Using his signature jutsu Naruto created four shadow clones. Their appearance both visually as well as on the radar brought much shock and confusion for both sides. Naruto nodded to one of his clones. "I'm counting on you."
"Roger that dattebayo." The clone said before lifting Haruna on his back, the heavily damaged ship girl letting out a surprised squeak. The clone then took off in the direction of the command ship and the ally ship girls. While the original and the remaining shadow clones turned their attention on the enemy.
"Go!" Naruto yelled out. Letting out affirmative cries the three shadow clones rushed toward the remains of the Abyssal fleet two split off on either side in an enclosing move. The Abyssal ship girls upon realizing they were under attack recovered from their shock and retaliated. The two Ru classes opened up on the clone in the center the shock and force of the explosions on the water dispelled the clone before it could get very close. The Ta and Ri- class opened up on one of the flanking clones also taking it out before it could really close the distance. The third flanking clone managed to get closer dodging the initial fire and throwing a kunai at one of the Ru class before being hit simultaneously from cannon fire from both the Wo carrier and the Ha destroyer. The Ru-class easily blocked the Kunai with one of her heavily armored gun turrets. To the Abyssal Naruto's attack failed, in truth Naruto had used the clones to gain experience on his unknown enemy.
'So those tube like things shoot some sort of projectile at really high speeds.' He thought, the shadow clones could barely see the projectiles when they left the tubes but at the same time they were predictable the tubes after all generally had to be pointed at him. Still it would be a tough and interesting fight. Naruto knew he had to really plan out his next attack well, although he was mostly healed his chakra reserves were still a bit low so he couldn't afford to waste any of it. A plan came to mind and he decided to go for it. "Kage Bunshin no jutsu!" Three dozen clones appeared in a large cloud of smoke once again bringing a surprised pause. "Let's go!" Naruto shouted and charged straight at the abyssal fleet. His clones followed two dozen split off on either side a repeat of the previous attack.
Once again the abyssal ship girls opened up on the clones several clones disappeared from the initial barrage but the attack continued. Naruto and the clones were several feet from the abyssal fleet when they opened up again, geysers of water exploded upward on three sides seeming to engulf all three groups. As the water settled Naruto and his force of clones were gone. Assuming they had easily defeated this strange new enemy The Abyssal and shifted their focus back to the Admirals ship girls. Just then the destroyers checked their sonar and found multiple underwater signals right on top of them. The alert from the destroyers caused general confusion from the rest of the fleet. Suddenly the water in front one of the Ru-class exploded upward and with it a figure they thought they sunk. The Ru-class had no time to react as Naruto slammed a blue ball of focused chakra right in her chest before she could bring her turrets to shield herself. She let a strangled cry before being blown back from the attack skipping along the water several times before slamming into the Nu-class. Both disappeared under the waves.
The sudden loss of two of their own brought a brief moment of pause before the remaining Abyssal reacted. The Ta-class brought her gun turrets around aiming at Naruto who was now standing on the water just feet from her. Before she could fire two pairs of hands burst from the water and simultaneously grabbed her legs before dragging her under the surface. The Ta-class reopened her eyes under the water, the last sight she saw was another Naruto thrusting another ball of chakra at her face. Water exploded up from where the Ta-class had been pulled under. At the same time the Ri-class was launched into the air by a clone directly under her several more clones burst from the water each delivering a devastating kick that pushed the ship-girl higher. Finally three clones overshot the Ri-class and unleashed a simultaneous axe kick sending the Abyssal under the waves.
The remaining Ru-class swung an armored turret managing to backhand a clone that had burst out of the water to punch her. Another jumped out several feet in front of her and threw four kunai that seemed to be tinged in a white glow at her. The Ru-class managed to bring the heavily armored turrets up blocking the kunai and at the same time blew away the attacking clone. As she brought the turrets down she paused, the kunai had not been deflected but were partially embedded in her turrets. Another curious thing was that there seemed to be a single slip of paper attached to each of them. The Ru-class's confused eyes widened as the paper slips burst into flame.
The resulting explosion threw the Ru-class back her turrets completely destroyed but she remained afloat. The Ha and I-class chased after Naruto cannons blazing as the blonde shinobi leaped, sidestepped and even rolled out of the way of the way of the shells. Two clones breached out of the water on either side of the Ha-class and stabbed a kunai into both sides of the Abyssal destroyer. The clones puffed out of existence leaving two kunai with tags stuck in the destroyer. Moments later the Abyssal also disappeared in an explosion that completely engulfed it. The I-class hesitated at the loss of its ally. Its hesitation cost it as another clone leaped out of the water in front of it. The I-class opened its mouth to fire its cannon but the leg of the clone smashed hard into the open maw destroying the cannon and sending the Abyssal destroyer skipping across the water.
Now the Wo-class supporting a badly damaged Ru-class faced off against the shinobi as he stood in a defensive crouch several feet away from them with two kunai in each hand held in an underhanded grip. For several long moments neither side moved then suddenly the water behind Naruto exploded upward as the damaged I-class breached out of the water its maw wide open as it arced down upon the shinobi. Naruto gaze didn't break one hand shot out behind him sending a kunai straight into the open maw of the abyssal destroyer. The tag attached to it burst into flame before disappearing into the mouth of the I-class. The explosion of the I-class a moment later framed Naruto in an intimidating background of destruction. It was also the final deciding factor of this engagement. The Wo-class retreated with its damaged ally into the weather front. Naruto let out a sigh of relief, truth be told he was pretty bushed right now and was glad his opponents chose to retreat. As he turned to make his way back to the ship he had been on, his thoughts turned to home, what happened after Kaguya? Were his friends and allies alright? Most importantly he needed to get back to them as soon as he could. He could only hope that the people he helped had a way to get him home.
Author Notes: Yes another side project I decided to write, after getting a bit of interest in the Kantai Collection yet of the current fiction works up for this type of crossover I was quite surprised to see no one decided to try the simple route of placing Naruto in the Kancolle world unimaginative most certainly yet it seems these types of crossovers are still popular despite how unimaginative they seem. I'll tell you already I haven't played the game, frankly I feel it would be very complicated despite the very well developed wiki guide that has been made for it. So I am taking my character development and story work from various fanworks, the game mostly for the map work and bit of the anime mostly for the personality of the characters which was done well. I'm also using this to nip a few questions which will probably be asked and hopefully I'll get most of them
No Naruto will not be an Admiral, he's a ninja and he'll stay a ninja.
Yes this is a harem fic but I am only doing ten the more you put in the more screen time each girl needs and that is just tiring. Besides Kancolle has 81 girls as I'm writing this and that number will continue rising from what I've heard and that's not even counting the Shinkaisei-kan, Naruto ain't the emperor of China guys. I'll probably hint that more jumped on the bandwagon but most likely near the end.
There will be a poll before a new romantic route which I will announce and voting ends at the end of the day the next chapter that is posted. That means any votes before or after will not be counted. Also if you haven't figured it out yet slot one has been filled.
Yes it is possible that I will add the Shinkaisei-kan girls as well. There will be a poll for it but keep in mind if voted in there will be less spots available to possibly get your favorite fleet girl in.
There is a list of girls that won't count no matter how many people vote for them. These girls include Kongou and her sisters minus one, Nagato and her sister ship Mutsu, Naka (She annoys the heck out of me even though I don't play the game). Houshou (I'm not putting him together with the surrogate mother of the fleet.) Mamiya (Neither will I put him with the Lunch lady.) Ooyodo, and Akashi.
If the Shinkaisei-kan poll gets them in there, there will also be a list there too although significantly shorter.
I know I haven't been active for a long time. Truth be told I've been sidetracked mostly by some of the awesome games that have been coming out. Also I put everything on the backburner to focus on one new series of fanfiction that I haven't posted yet. Mostly because I don't want to disappoint anyone if I don't finish it. For now I'm going to have you all read this and see if you like it. If so then I may put a bit more focus into it but it will be slow going.
